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by ethbr0 3y ago
As an engineer who generally supports anti-racism (and -sexism) ideas, I figured it was broadly understood that anti-racism (as a goal) was racist (as a definition). You can't add 0 to -5 enough times and get back to 0.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Neither did I! Not my part of the country. And I am sympathetic to your point -- there's a lot of excesses and not-functionally-relevant requirements in academia these days. But NYC has a lengthy and altruistic history of charity/
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Eh. I'd look at it a little differently. We need both engineering and arts/culture in society. And it behooves us that those who produce arts and culture are educated to a higher level in their disciplines. The Western capitalist
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Agreed. It's a bit ridiculous to pull a qualifications list from a college that's declared purpose since before 1900 has been mass education, irrespective of sex, race, religion, or ethnic background. If parent wants to make the
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by ethbr0 3y ago
In order for cloud gaming not to be a thing, the following will have to happen: - Residential bandwidth (and to a lesser extent latency) will decrease in the future - It will be cheaper to have hardware at home than in a datacenter - Game
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's a little known fact that Sweden has been in the process of declaring war on Denmark. As soon as they finalize the phrasing of the declaration and approve it through committee, probably in the next few centuries, all hell is going
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I mean, that's obviously driven by politics. They're an important economic driver in Florida.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
By that standard, the UK, Spain and France are also in civil wars. IMHO, once military forces reach rough parity, civil wars should never be a justification for external involvement, because it always ends badly. Internal problems need in
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Rail >> sea. Especially given that Russia doesn't have full sea control outside of Sevastopol, at least not enough so as to guarantee continuous cargo transport. Or if they deploy their fleet regularly outside of the harbor... we
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Multiple actors can be horrible (<0 ethics), but that doesn't mean that their absolute ethics value is irrelevant, or their relative horribleness to others. Russia is systematically deporting Ukrainian children to Russia and integra
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I'm just glad that we're bringing LEGO manufacturing back to the US. For too long US builders have been subject to the geopolitical risks of Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, China, and Mexico. This is a strategic raw material
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Ukraine could hit the Crimean Bridge from territory they control today with ATACMS, which if kept inoperable would make supplying Crimea untenable. That's Ukrainian territory by international law, a valid military target, and minimal c
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Let's not forget Hungary making it impossible to vote Orbán out ~2012.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
On the other hand, are we really comparing the leadership of Afghanistan and Iraq to Ukraine and deciding these things are the same? Last I checked, Ukraine hadn't invaded its neighbors, gassed ethnic minorities, or taken freedom from
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Ironically, the French Wikipedia page is even shorter: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_D
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by ethbr0 4y ago
This is what all of Wikipedia used to be like, until the formalism made the trains run on time. Not sure which version I like better, tbh.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
From mass market sources, true. Probably because they're aiming towards the common American, who generally has similar feelings. Ergo, they're that + whichever politically-polarized biases. As for whether averaging that out is use
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Not just auto-complete, but Google removing power search capabilities (quotes, plus, etc). Here's hoping LLMs-as-a-service don't fall into the same trap. It's fine to optimize for the 80% of your users who write badly, but fo
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by ethbr0 4y ago
In your original (upthread) argument that "unbiased news is not a possibility", are you stating that as a fundamental consequence of the news' lossy compression of {all facts} into a smaller product... or something else? It&#
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by ethbr0 4y ago
What we're really talking about here is boting any deviation from a tabula rasa appraisal of reality, then clustering that into an affiliation/quality, right? I.e. Christians (as an averaged whole) can look at the same situation
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The difference is that facts are harder to consume than news articles, as the latter is essentially packaged and distributed collections of the former. Furthermore, the intent of parent's bias averaging, as I understand it, is... 1) Th
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Have you ever driven a manual Miata?
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> ...akin [to] the Philip Moris company testifying... Indeed. If only there were some analogy to a massively profitable industry, woven into the social fabric of the country, that was then found to be harmful. Why, you'd expect
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Piracy and privacy are so difficult to distinguish. So few letters. Better to just get rid of both.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The critical feature is less about AI and more about sufficient autonomy (for the weapon's goal) and the lack of traceability that emerges as a consequence of that. If I have a non-autonomous weapon, it's tied to a person, and
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The four variables are: a. Ukraine's will to resist b. NATO's will to supply military arms c. Russia's will to continue the operation d. Russia's economy Of those, I'd bet (d) fails first. Nazi Germany (which was ec
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The US and NATO has been training the Ukrainian military since the 00s. [0] They don't fight exactly according to US doctrine, but they don't not either. [0] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-0
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Especially relevant on the F-16 discussion, since they'd likely only be flying over Ukrainian controlled territory. There's no reason we shouldn't have gotten some of their pilots started in a training pipeline months ago.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
As firsthand recorded source material for the above, see "This American Life" episode 767, act 2. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/767/do-not-go-gentle (Disclaimer: contains recordings from Russian police sta
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Other countries and yourself may be different, but you'd find it difficult to find a US driver who has not tried to catch a yellow light.

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